Brewer/Cellar Operator Paso Robles, CA 93446
Overview: Salary Range $25.00 - $28.00 Hourly
Description: Firestone Walker Brewing Company began as a small brewery with roots in the wine country on California's Central Coast. Now a regional craft brewery, our singular purpose remains to craft the world's best beers. Passionately in pursuit of the perfect beer and never satisfied. The Brewer/Cellar Operator is responsible for cleaning tanks, transferring beer, quality management, yeast management, and equipment maintenance. The cellar operator is also required to maintain a neat, clean, and sanitary environment throughout the brewery.
Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities:
  • Set up, maintain and operate centrifugation equipment
  • Brew efficiently and effectively on both brewhouses including grain transfer, mashing, lautering, boiling, and cooling of wort while monitoring quality of product and performance of equipment
  • Monitor fermentations-check gravities, identify irregularities, record data, dry hopping, cap, and chill tanks
  • Manage yeast through yeast harvesting, checking viability, yeast dumps, and burps
  • Complete beer transfers: check product for readiness, set up, transfer and cleanup according to SOP. Ensure clean transfers at low D.O. levels in a timely manner
  • Run Filtration: Setup and pre-coat, follow SOP to meet quality specifications; ensure proper operation, CIP, and sanitization
  • Complete all necessary paperwork accurately and on time
  • Complete tank cleaning and tank sanitization
  • Use proper safety equipment and personal protection equipment.
  • Uphold the quality standards of Firestone Walker inside and outside the Brewery
  • Communicate low level inventory of all items used
  • Ensure that safety procedures are adhered to throughout the building
  • Communicate regularly and efficiently with Brewhouse Manager, Cellar Manager, and Packaging Manager
  • Complete all required safety training
  • Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
  • Formal Education in Brewing and Fermentation preferred
  • Prior professional brewing experience preferred
  • Overnight Shifts are mandatory
Other Skills And Abilities:
  • Basic mathematical skills
  • Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
  • Ability to analyze and interpret technical journals pertaining to brewing and quality control
  • Read and understand a variety of scientific instruments
Work Environment:
  • Work in a wet environment with loud noise
  • Exposed to acids, caustics, and cleaning products
  • Regularly required to stand, walk, and climb stairs
  • Grip and manipulate tri-clamps and drag hoses several times a day
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
  • Regularly required to lift 55lb grain bags and 44lb Hop boxes with assistance
  • Employee is occasionally required lift and maneuver a keg (165lbs) with assistance

Also on the board Same function, level within a rung

Level

Mid

Salary

$25.00 - $28.00 per hour

Location

Paso Robles, CA

Occupation

Bartenders

Industry

Breweries

Posted

8 days ago

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